Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head

Taken right fromslashdot .

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 22, @08:24PM
from the yawn dept.
Phoenix666 writes "NYT Business reports Hilary Rosen is leaving . Question is, what head will spring from the Hydra next? Could this signal a shift in the RIAA's tactics? The article reports 'Rosen's departure comes as the organization sought to soften its image among Internet consumers, many of whom viewed the RIAA -- and Rosen personally -- with antipathy over incessant pressure for crackdowns on sharing digital music over the Internet.'" A press release on the RIAA site says that Rosen will leave at the end of this year.

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Too much pressure for her? Awww... so sad to see her go... ;)

Now, lets break out the champaign!

The way they (RIAA) are headed lately is straight to a fight to the death with 12 citizens. What do you think the score would be at the ending bell? Maybe.... citizens=twelve, RIAA=zero? Can you imagine RIAA trying to trace the logs through all the servers from Johnny's keyboard to some URL that has music, then trace a *specific* music back to Johnny's harddrive through the same spiderweb of servers? Just do a tracert to some music site from your ISP and see how many times it crosses the USA before it hooks up. Try that one on a jury, half of which think computers are some tool of the devil, and the defense attorney looking each of them in the face and saying; "You convict my client, on the basis of this hocus-pocus RIAA is trying to feed you, and *YOU*, Mr. and Mrs. Juror, you, and your grandchildren, are *NEXT*!" Anybody wanna take bets on the first test between RIAA and the citizens? Now, if Johnny isn't smart enough to demand a jury trial, and it just goes before some judge that attends the bashes financed by Knoxville, et-al, then Johnny is cooked goose. But not with a competent attorney, and not before a jury of his peers. In fact, the term "a jury of peers" might play a part in jury selection, might it not? Would the smart defense attorney pick young, 'puter-literate jurors, or would (s)he look for Grandma's and Grandpa's? If I were the defense, i'd go for the grandma's and grandpa's, they would relate Johnny to their own grandchildren. "Decision for the defendant, plaintiff to pay all attorney and court-costs, plus, let's see, how much for corporate harassment shall we award Johnny...ten mil should do it!"
Sure, Hillary and RIAA could win one before a tainted judge, but not before a jury in this country, at least not in this century.

Wow, The Old Man:

I never really thought of it that way. Great post!

Time for edit has expired, don't want to start a new thread, so am adding this to P-80's thread from last week.
Seems that Kazaa has come up with serious grounds to sue RIAA under Federal Anti-Trust statutes and other very serious violations of Federal Law. If you are interested, today's story clip is Here. Personally, i hope Kazaa whips RIAA'a butt, if Kazaa's charges are true. Maybe Madame whatshername saw this coming and her attorneys told her it was going to be nasty? Who knows. :)
LINK:
http://msn.com.com/2100-1106-982344.html